I seriously doubt anything they included with the LE will significantly affect gameplay.

You mean like another playable character? Or an additional fighting style? Yeah, that doesn't affect gameplay at all...

From what I understand, the extra playable character really does have no effect on gameplay - it's basically an extra character model. It's hard to tell what impact the additional martial arts style will have - there are already a lot of them in the game.

i probably won't preorder Jade Empire, only because i have to see how much you have to play through before you get a weapon (if it's long, that's the end of me!)

ChrisGwinn - why do you increase your risk of a bad game when you preorder? is it because they're all first run or something?

I think he's referring to not seeing any sort of reviews and so forth before putting down money on a game. Sure previews can glow about a game, but the end result and review can be quite different than what a preview says

I am so tempted to preorder this but I can't decide if I should just wait for it to come out on the PC. It seems like a gamepad would be a good thing to have for this game and that is something I do not have for my 'puter. Any thoughts on this?

I am so tempted to preorder this but I can't decide if I should just wait for it to come out on the PC. It seems like a gamepad would be a good thing to have for this game and that is something I do not have for my 'puter. Any thoughts on this?

There hasn't ever been any official word of this coming to the PC. It doesn't seem like the controls would work that well for the PC, but that's me.

Well, I did it: I've never preordered a game in my gaming lifetime, but I preordered Jade Empire today. Thanks to the EB "Credit + $10 for 2" trade in deal I didn't actually have to lay out any cash out of pocket, so it was that much easier. This will be the first time I've bought a game on release day and at release price since... I can't even remember when.